Things worth writing down.

Of twelve systems we run in production, eight have no model in them at all. A cron job that reliably expires stale records is not less impressive than a chatbot — it is more useful. Where the model earns its place, and where it is decoration.

How to triage a dependency-alert pile without either ignoring it or losing a week: split dev from production by running the actual install command, grep for the vulnerable API rather than the package name, and check the minimum upgrade instead of the latest version.

Every capability we ship is gated by an explicit grant, returns a typed error when it is missing, and can be checked from outside. Boring, and the reason we let software touch a client's orders.

What AI actually changes about making things, and what it does not.Written in 2023, before most of this was fashionable.

Doing things right and doing the right things are different problems. Most operations work confuses them.

What to weigh when the shop floor and the website have to agree — and where Shopify POS fits.

Layout, responsiveness and how far a theme bends before it breaks — the decisions that are expensive to reverse.

Plus earns its price at volume and with complex B2B rules. Below that it is an expensive way to buy features you already have — and for wholesale specifically, there is a cheaper answer.

Why it matters more than it sounds, what actually moves the numbers, and how to keep it from decaying.

The honest case for moving, written for someone who already trades somewhere else and is weighing the disruption.